The Goodies, while less well known internationally than their Python contemporaries, were three of the funniest blokes on British TV in the early to mid 1970's. One of the highlights of their early shows was the parody commercials they ran halfway through each episode. Tim Brooke-Taylor hated having to play all the gay and girlie parts, but he always got stuck with them by virtue of having blonde hair.

Oh dear fucking Cthulhu, this is like something out of a John Brunner novel: NewsTweak.

TL;DR version: it's a plug computer like SheevaPlug or PogoPlug ... or the rather less benign PlugBot. It runs Linux and has wifi and a bunch of preconfigured software to do interesting things on whatever wifi network it finds itself on. You'll notice it has an extra mains socket on the front, so that it looks like a rather clunky surge suppressor or similar adapter.

In the case of NewsTweak, it uses ARP spoofing to change the text displayed on certain web sites. In the demo video (see that link at the top?) we see NewsTweak changing a headline on the BBC News website.

@Greasemonkey: Trying to close that zit-popping site locked up my Firefox to the point of everything else locking up as I tried to close the program. Could be a coincidence, could be some nasty programming.

@Greasemonkey: Yeah, I'm just saying what happened. That site DID have a ton of different video-type scripts running at once, and I had a Livestream running in another window, so it could've just been Firefox derping on me.